“Don’t talk that way!” He took her face in both his hands. “If I had lost you today...I would not have recovered from that. It would have been one too many lives lost to me.”
“Don’t you think I feel that way too? I left everyone I loved behind on Earth, and I was starting to think I wouldn’t find anyone here in this new strange world that could come close to touching my heart…” She stopped as a tear escaped.
He wiped away the tear with his thumb. “I was dead inside Tera. All my family passed on to the other side to be with the Goddess. I’m the last of my line and there has never been any female that filled my heart—until you. I don’t want you anywhere near those rebels. I couldn’t take it if something happened to you.”
She wrapped her arms around his neck, holding on to him as if she could magically take them away somewhere safe. For just that moment, it was the two of them and the world faded away. He breathed, she breathed and their hearts seemed to find the same beat. The sounds of ships passing over them brought reality back to them.
He pulled away. “I need to go meet with Commander TylOR. Stay here at the shuttle.”
Tera nodded her head letting go of him. “Be safe and come back to me.”
He gave her a quick kiss and then ran off into the woods.
“God please watch over him and keep him safe.”
